Gender locked race?

[Vriel]

I would even buy 10 Fantasia if it would allow me to go male bunny. But guess I stay cat or figure out how to make females work.....
just sad rn

[Tharne]

That's a great idea, and also... maybe just me, I'll re-watch stuff in a little bit, but... was the lightning a bit.. too harsh and when it wasn't that it was just too "close up" on Hrothgar reveal video? We all know FFXIV could use a texture resolution increase, so when things are so close you can see the pixels, and when farther away it was like the lighting seemed to be a bit too contrasted to me.

Maybe I need to check it again but I thought to myself "I bet it'll look better on my own PC in a normal distance/ambient setting". Did you feel that?

Yeah, the lightning in the video was really weird I thought. The first shot especially, maybe they wanted to make a "the beast is coming" kind of effect with a shadowy face but it kind of fell flat imo.
But I can't wait for the benchmark to see the customisation.

[Rydia_Feymarchian]

I don't know what to say beside that I am extremely disappointed. I've been looking forward playing as a female monster race for the past 4 years and now it was so close but *no*, more sexy object females and a male 'ronso' locked in gender as well. I just don't understand why.

[BiddyBatnana]

Yeah, the lightning in the video was really weird I thought. The first shot especially, maybe they wanted to make a "the beast is coming" kind of effect with a shadowy face but it kind of fell flat imo.
But I can't wait for the benchmark to see the customisation.

When is the Benchmark coming out btw ?

[Theodric]

That's a great idea, and also... maybe just me, I'll re-watch stuff in a little bit, but... was the lightning a bit.. too harsh and when it wasn't that it was just too "close up" on Hrothgar reveal video? We all know FFXIV could use a texture resolution increase, so when things are so close you can see the pixels, and when farther away it was like the lighting seemed to be a bit too contrasted to me.

Maybe I need to check it again but I thought to myself "I bet it'll look better on my own PC in a normal distance/ambient setting". Did you feel that?

I felt it too, though I suspect we'll see improvements made between now and Shadowbringers. I do hope that there's work on enhancing customisation across the board in the future for every playable race, though.

Actually after translating a bunch of Japanese posts on twitter about viera it seems the fanbase there isn't exactly happy either.

Twitter is something of an echo chamber in many cases, thus best taken with a pinch of salt.

[LalafellDown]

SE did a great job, people were arguing about a beast race and a bunny race in the past. You got both now. You get a woman and a sexy beast. Why not be a Lala and have both at the same time?

[NahuNa]

It really is sad that they went for the safest and most boring choice. Did people asking for male bunnysuits tell them nothing? People have explicitly asked for male viera, and only vaguely mentioned they might entertain the notion of Ronso. I bet they'd honestly sell more fantasias if they had added bunnymen instead of them! Not to mention, the Hrothgar's facial features are slightly... off? So they really just feel like a half-assed consolation prize when instead they could've easily tweaked the lore to include a clan of viera that have more males or what-have-you if they were THAT worried about lore.

In fact, since they care so much about lore, I think nobody should be Dragoons anymore, or White Mages, since there's technically only two Azure Dragoons ever, and only one person aside the Padjal are allowed to use white magic. It is in fact ruining my immersion to see so many Ninjas around, too! /s

[decoratibo]

Who will actually play as a Hrothgar? And not as a joke? I'm asking this honestly. Even if you enjoy their overall looks (no judgement), their overall character model seemed very rough and slapdash, especially compared to Viera.

[Freyt]

No male Viera = lore reasons
No female Ronso = lore changes

[Chilliwack]

What can I say that hasn't already been said?

Just know SE, that I an SEVERELY unimpressed.